Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

BARC’s research and development program in Electronics, Instrumentation and Computers has made spectacular progress in recent years and contributed to areas such as: control and instrumentation systems for nuclear reactors, for improvement in performance and power output in various stages of India’s Nuclear Power Program; computers and software; accelerator and electron beam technology; radiation detectors and applications; robotics and remote handling and electronics standardisation. It has provided crucial support to research in basic sciences through supercomputing, scientific visualisation, information processing and information exchange.

Some recent developments include: Design and testing of three Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs): ANUSPARSH, ANUDRISHTI and ANUSUCHAK in 0.35 μm CMOS technology. ANUSPARSH is a front-end readout for Resistive Plate Chamber detectors of INO (India based Neutrino Observatory), ANUDRISHTI is a monolithic photodiode and readout electronics for compact gamma detection probes and ANUSUCHAK is low power front-end readout for silicon PIN detectors; Development of software for operator consoles of Reactor Trip Logic System and Alarm Annunciation System for Dhruva; Development of a Hand-scan Biometric Authentication System based on a novel algorithm; Software for Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid in collaboration with CERN, Geneva.